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His Kind Assistance

Friday, March 26, 2010

His Kind Assistance

by

Abby Zimet

The growing sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has reached ever closer to Pope Benedict XVI, with a New York Times piece charging
that as then-Cardinal he ignored the serial transgressions of a
pedophile priest in Wisconsin who molested 200 deaf boys over 20 years
- the latest in a score of cover-up charges involving priests across
Europe. Four U.S. survivors of priest abuse were arrested at the
Vatican after protesting the cover-ups, and New Yorkers are calling for a Sunday protest, titled "Shame on Ratzinger," at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

"I simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of
my priesthood," Father Murphy, the alleged pedophile priest, wrote to
then-Cardinal Ratzinger. "I ask your kind assistance in this matter."

Further

Whew. That was way too close for comfort. And yeah, the country's in a sorry state to have come to this. But not only does Doug Jones become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years; his win is a blunt rejection of all the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, race-baiting, sexual-assaulting, serial lying crap of losers Moore and Trump and Bannon and their ugly ilk. Forward to mid-terms. And once and for all, to Moore in all his evil: "Fuck you and the horse you (badly) rode in on."